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Wednesday, March 9, 2016

FINALS UPDATE:Limitless (1.1) got a much-welcome upward adjustment to avoid a rounded new low. Among the repeats, NCIS: New Orleans (1.2) adjusted up and The Flash (0.3) adjusted down.

NBC had a sensational start from new reality series Little Big Shots (2.9), which retained the vast majority of its lead-in from The Voice (a 3.1 overall and 3.5 in the 9:30 half-hour). Only Supergirl (3.1) and fellow Voice lead-out Blindspot (3.1) have started better among series premieres this season. It's settling in on Sunday at 8/7c later this week, which will be a much tougher timeslot, but it's hard to see it not doing good business after this kind of initial sampling.

ABC revamped its Tuesday to mixed results (if we're being kind):

There was improvement in the 8/7c hour, where Fresh Off the Boat (1.4) swung up. The Real O'Neals (1.1) had a pretty modest start at 8:30 but at least beat all the 2016 episodes of The Muppets.

The return of Agents of SHIELD (1.1) at 9/8c also improved on what the network had been doing with Agent Carter this winter, but it was a new low for the show by two tenths.

And there was no real interest in long-delayed newbie Of Kings and Prophets (0.8), which started even below Wicked City and could be in pull-me-now territory in short order.

On CBS, only Limitless (1.0) was original, but it dropped to yet another new low as NCIS: New Orleans (1.1) and NCIS (1.1) went into repeats.

Fox was original in just the first hour, as the so-called 100th episode of New Girl (1.2) was even as it welcomed back Zooey Deschanel. Grandfathered was also flat at 0.8, while repeats of Brooklyn Nine-Nine (0.6) and The Grinder (0.5) went low.

The CW had repeats of The Flash (0.4) and iZombie (0.3).

FULL TABLE:

Name

A18-49

Skew

Last

Lastn

LeLa

Rank

wy2y

TLa

Ty2y

True

Fresh Off the Boat

1.4

36%

+17%

+0.2

6/15

-18%

+56%

-18%

1.46

The Real O'Neals

1.1

35%

-42%

-0.8

-1.2

3/3

+22%

-8%

0.98

Agents of SHIELD

1.1

40%

-15%

-0.2

-0.1

11/11

-31%

+57%

-31%

1.02

Of Kings and Prophets

0.8

31%

1/1

+14%

-20%

1.01

ABC:

+37%

-22%

NCIS: New Orleans (R)

1.2

18%

2/10

-40%

0%

1.20

NCIS (R)

1.1

17%

7/13

-31%

0%

0.96

Limitless

1.1

26%

0%

0.0

-0.7

16/17

+38%

+38%

1.28

CBS:

-23%

+10%

The Voice Tue Spring

3.1

29%

+3%

+0.1

1/2

-24%

+3%

-24%

2.72

Little Big Shots

2.9

29%

1/1

+93%

+38%

2.44

NBC:

+21%

-12%

New Girl

1.2

57%

0%

0.0

6/10

-8%

0%

-14%

1.30

Grandfathered

0.8

52%

0%

0.0

0.0

16/19

0%

-43%

0.80

Brooklyn Nine-Nine (R)

0.6

52%

2/2

-25%

-54%

0.60

The Grinder (R)

0.5

49%

2/8

-17%

-50%

0.59

Fox:

-9%

-39%

The Flash (R)

0.3

33%

3/8

0%

-25%

0.30

iZombie (R)

0.3

52%

1/5

0%

0%

0.34

CW:

0%

-14%

All:

+7%

-15%

The full table can be sorted by clicking any of the category names at the top. Hover over 'Last', 'y2y' and timeslot numbers for more information on the previous episode(s) being compared.